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Blank json output for all searches

See original GitHub issue

I have been using this snippet for a while:

search = json.loads(YoutubeSearch("test", max_results=1).to_json())
videos = search["videos"][0]
link = videos["link"]
print("https://youtube.com" + link)

which now results in list index out of range

Since today, the json output appears to be returning this for all searches: {"videos": []}

I’m wondering if youtube changed something in the page?

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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alexmercerindcommented, Jul 2, 2020

Now YouTube randomly returns two types of responses, one within JavaScript and other as HTML… Now we cannot scrape using BeautifulSoup.

I have separately written another script here completely from scratch (without any third party library) and is working with both types of responses.

Feel free to use: https://github.com/alexmercerind/youtube-search-python

It has lot more information in its search result.

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joetatscommented, Jun 30, 2020

All the video info is now contained inside a Javascript object within a script tag on the returned page, so the parser will need to collect from there. I’m testing out some javascript parsing libraries and hopefully will have something soon

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